Hey World! Here I Am!!

Hi! So I just got home from rehearsal, and saw a post on a message board about theatre experience blogging. So here I am! Yippeee!

Alright, I have to 'splain a few things here. Im out of highschool, and have been for almost 3 years now. I went to a Performing Arts school. I was in 3 chiors, 2 dramas and musical theatre, as well as stage managing, playwrights, and costuming. I guess you could say Ive been around. I also have something called cerebral palsy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_Palsy

What this means in most basic terms, is Im forced to do everything a little differently. I dance, and walk differently, I write differently. I type differently. I did speak differently but a good many years of speech therapy fixed that. YAY! I learned from an early age that I could sing, and honed that talent, what little of it there was into something more. When I was five, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat came to town. Yes, I saw it with Donny Osmond. Love at first spotlight. When youre five, you dont think about can and cant do's, or futures, or cause and effect that actions might have on yourself or other people. You just stare, and hope and wish and dream. I saw Joesph that day and something inside me came alive. I had to be on stage. I had to do musicals. I WOULD be in an Andrew Lloyd Webber show someday. Through many years of summer camp, school shows, community theatre and the like, eventually I came to terms with the fact that I am a "working actress" Though acting is not what I do to pay bills, it is what I do.

Unfortunately, having CP often gets in the way of having a theatrical life. I cant feel my feet most of the time. I limp. My hands shake, my knee gives out whenever it wants. I cant dance though I do have rhythm and I can stay in time. Throw me in the back and Im cool. There is so much more I could do if I were given a shot, and one day, I promise you, I will be known. Im determined to prove that if I can do it so can anyone else.

Anyway, this is a theatre experience blog right? So lets move onto the theatre experiences! Right now, Im in an Andrew Lloyd Webber(!! See? Told you I would! HA!) revue style show titled Music of the Night. And I think, besides The Wiz, its my favorite show. Its just a kick ass time!!

Song List

Jellicle Cats

Memory

Mr Mistoffeles

Superstar

Gethsemane

Whats the Buzz?

I Dont Know How to Love Him

Starlight Express/I Am The Starlight

Pumping Iron

Only You

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Joesph Medley which includes:

Prolougue

Jacob and Sons

Any Dream Will Do

Poor Poor Joesph

One More Angel in Heaven

Close Every Door

Go Go Joesph

Joesph's Coat

Masquerade

Music of the Night

Phantom of the Opera

Think of Me

All I Ask of You

Masquerade (Reprise)

Buenos Aries

Another Suitcase in Another Hall

Night of a Thousand Stars

Dont Cry for Me Argentina

A New Argentina

Unexpected Song

Sunset Boulevard

With One Look

Final Medley which includes

Jellicle Cats

Jesus Christ Superstar

Go Go Joesph

Phantom of the Opera

Beunos Aries

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Im super ridiculous excited!

I have rehearsals Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays, so Ill probably be posting then. I am auditioning for solos I dont know how to love him and memory, so we'll see what comes of it.

Ciao bella's!!